throatiness

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The property of being throaty; roughness, coarseness. uncountable
    — Mademoiselle de Roissi’s voice […] is quite free from that throatiness of sound, an invariable characteristic of French voices, which, had we no evidence to the contrary, would lead us to suppose, that Mdlle. de Roissi had studied vocalization in Italy […]
  2. The property of having a dewlap or excess skin hanging under the neck. uncountable
    — We have before noticed, that a pendulous skin under the throat, what we term throatiness, is much esteemed, because it is supposed to denote a tendency both to wool and to a heavy fleece.

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Etymology tree
English throaty
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English throatiness
From throaty + -ness.
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